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From the Editors
Contents
From the Editors ........................................................................ 77
From the President .................................................................... 78
A Framework for Effective Speech Pathology Terms –
Regina Walsh ................................................................................ 79
Attitudes of Speech Pathologists towards ICTs for
Service Delivery – Lindy McAllister, Carolyn Dunkley,
and Linda Wilson ......................................................................... 84
Adults with Severe Intellectual Disability:
Communication partners and modes – Teresa Iacono,
Sheridan Forster, Karen Bloomberg, and Ruth Bryce .................. 89
Ethical Conversations – Marie Atherton .................................. 92
Speech Pathology in the Asia Pacific Region: The Land
of the Long White Cloud: An introduction to the
New Zealand speech-language therapy profession –
Stella Ward ................................................................................... 95
Webwords 31: Evidence based speech-language
pathology intervention – Caroline Bowen ................................ 98
Outside the Square: Speech pathologist to plain
language advisor – John Fisher ............................................... 100
Letters to the Editors ............................................................... 102
Spotlight on Students’ Work – Michelle O’Brien .................. 103
Evaluation of study methodology: Studies
investigating characteristics of OME that impact
speech and language development – Annelies Tuohy
and Michelle O’Brien ................................................................. 103
To intervene or not to intervene: Australian
Indigenous children with OM-induced language
delay – Simone Williams and Michelle O’Brien ....................... 104
From a Student’s Perspective: Experience of an
international student – Hasherah Mohd Ibrahim ................... 106
The Association’s Activities 2008 .......................................... 106
My Top 10 Resources: From a research perspective –
Kyriaki Ttofari Eecen . ................................................................ 107
Book Reviews ........................................................................... 109
Do you wonder how things work? Is it clear to you how
your interventions work? Or why they sometimes don’t
work? These were the type of questions which brought us to
the theme for this issue of ACQ.
One of the tasks for the editors of ACQ (with much help
from Filomena Scott at National Office, without whom this
publication would never appear) is to plan/describe/map
out the front and back covers for each issue. This is a very
daunting task. So what were the options for this issue? Would
we suggest a microscope, suggesting consideration at the
cellular level, juxtaposed with a telescope, representing a long
distance overall view? Would we depict an individual
successfully negotiating communicative challenges in different
settings or looking comfortable and satisfied after an
enjoyable meal? What about a stack of journals or researchers
completing yet another ethics application? And so, the cover
took shape. We hope the cover in some way illustrates our
professional responsibility to question when and why our
interventions work and how we know they do.
One of the key problems in developing a shared under­
standing of how and when our interventions are effective is
the use of inconsistent terminology. This complex and
pervasive issue is addressed in the paper reporting on aspects
of the Framework for Speech Pathology Terminology. There
are also papers addressing attitudes of clinicians to working
with telehealth as well as an exploration of the success of
interactions for people with severe intellectual disability and
complex communication needs.
This is the last issue that we will edit and we want to thank
all those who have contributed to the ACQ over the last two
years. We have been privileged to work with regular, reliable
and fascinating contributors such as Caroline Bowen, Cori
Williams, Lindy McAllister and Marie Atherton. We are also
grateful for the contributions of the members of the two
editorial committees who have supported the production of
ACQ. We are delighted to hand over the role to Marleen
Westerveld and Nicole Watts Pappas. They are already well
underway with the first edition for 2009 and we wish them
well with the stimulation, satisfaction (and occasional
frustrations) ahead. Finally we would like to applaud the
members of the Association who contribute and share their
successes and discuss the reasons for some less successful
ventures in the pages of ACQ.
Louise Brown and Chyrisse Heine
Co-editors
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